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Type: PhD thesis × Subject: Australian history × Start date: 2004 × End date: 2009 ×

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    Teaching the nation: politics and pedagogy in Australian history
    CLARK, ANNA ( 2004-11)
    There is considerable anxiety about teaching Australian history in schools. In part, such concern reflects the so-called "History Wars", which have been played out in museums and national commemorations, as well as history syllabuses and textbooks. Such concern also reveals a professional and pedagogical debate over the state of the subject in schools. This thesis problematises history education as a site of contested collective memory and argues that concern over "teaching the nation" is intensified and augmented by an educational discourse of "the child" that shifts the debate over the past to the future.